A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
by
Beate Sirota Gordon, Nicole A. Gordon, Geoffrey Paul Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in the Room chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitution; how she almost single-handedly ensured that...